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Auction History Result Lot #: VHP7 090 RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE half-sheet movie poster '44 great Lugosi image!  Date Sold 7/11/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 7 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) The Return of the Vampire, the 1943 Lew Landers werewolf vampire monster horror thriller ("Beauty at the mercy of a Monster!"; "Man? Or Monster? Or Both?"; "Terrifying! Paralyzing! Horrifying!"; about an English family who thought they rid themselves of a vampire, but during World War II, German bombs free the monster; it reclaims the soul of its former wolfman servant and plots to take revenge on the family) starring Bela Lugosi (in the title role as the Vampire), Frieda Inescort, Miles Mander, Matt Willis (as the werewolf), and Nina Foch. Note that Columbia would have loved to refer to Bela Lugosi's character as "Dracula", but Universal owned the rights to the character, so they could only refer to him as "the vampire", and he was named "Armand Tesla" (and Matt Willis plays Tesla's werewolf servant!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster has never been folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded twice (once horizontally and once vertically) right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded copy of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! Condition: very good to fine. light staining across the top and bottom blank borders, and to a lesser extent on the left and right blank borders; a few minor creases within the image area, more so in the center of the poster (probably caused from the poster being rolled and unrolled; they are truly not very noticeable or distracting). Other than the above minor defects, the poster is in wonderful condition! I can't imagine a collector who would not be happy displaying this great poster on their wall! Of course, if someone wanted it to look "perfect", any talented restorer could remove the stains from the blank borders, but given what great condition that it is in, I would think it would be better to leave it exactly as it is. Learn More about condition grades 
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